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Education without art or game

ART EDUCATION OR GAME WITHOUT

Twelve years parked in school we are dedicated to developing the right at the expense of the rest of our faculties. Nobody teaches us to develop our senses, our intuition, our sense of play and artistic. If a parent asked what he thinks of art education, is likely to frown, because apparently heard a heresy. Prefer practical things for their offspring, such as English or computer. This does not come alone, because many parents tend to their children to a fiercely competitive world, instead of being full of noble souls and human sense of solidarity, peace and the ability to perceive the beauty of life.

This type of banking education Paulo Freire spoke, noting that the poor students appear to savings accounts in which teachers deposit for twelve or more years an overwhelming number of knowledge, but devoid of creative intelligence. If children are unable to use their senses to appreciate the sounds, tastes, textures, colors and flavorings, is consolation inhaling the smell of their computers or the music business English? If you do not learn to use their intuition, create with the whole body, not just to reason, how will later sensitivity to love their partner or children?

Arts education, human education that weaves relations of solidarity, because children tend to behave with the harmony of an orchestra and not to the discipline of a reformatory. The art is at odds with any form of authoritarianism. There is a pattern of mutual understanding and empathy between an artist who teaches and children learning about art. Even if you are virtuous later, having learned enough to appreciate the arts to enjoy balance in their lives, and especially, higher defense mechanisms against an ever-more unfair and less likely to excel.

Arts subjects are less important than sports. There is a hint of environmental consciousness by dint of incorporating these issues into the curriculum, but there is a wealth consciousness. In schools not taught to love our heritage buildings and the other the intangible. We have no clear notion of the party as the horizon of knowledge of our cultures. How can we respect, then, the legacy of our greatest if not encouraged or even the inventory of that legacy?

One time my friend Mario Vargas Cuellar told me that Chargers coming from the north of Potosi are all musicians. Perhaps many of our children have these skills, but it is curious that music education is reduced to the learning of hymns for the worst of the nineteenth century is one hour ceremonies citizenship. Our children are musical illiterates when it will be as easy to teach to read music since childhood. Teach them to play with the imagination since the first courses. Instruct in the use of the palette, cooking, arts and crafts and performing arts. This is an error of principle which has dragged on for over a century. And apparently there is no remedy!